Atlas Air, Inc. v. Air Line Pilots Ass'n

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• holding that a reasonable apprehension of litigation was necessary for declaratory judgment claim to be justiciable
• “[u]nder the Declaratory Judgment Act, a dispute ‘must not be nebulous or contingent but must have taken on fixed and final shape.”
• “By their express terms, these so-called ‘status quo’ provisions of the [RLA] only prohibit unilateral changes in wages or working conditions where there is a preexisting collective bargaining agreement.”
• under the RLA, as in the NLRA, suits for unlawful actions which begin before the limitations period but continue during the limitations period and continue to cause injury during the limitations period are not time barred
• under the RLA, as in the NLRA, suits for unlawful actions which begin before the limitations period but continue during the limitations period and continue to cause injury during the limitations period are not time barred
• under the RLA, as in the NLRA, suits for unlawful actions which begin before No. 08-4157 25 the limitations period but continue during the limita- tions period and continue to cause injury during the limitations period are not time barred

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